Every year there are 400,000 incidents of damage to underground utilities during excavation in the U.S. This is a world wide problem but some jurisdictions have found ways to reduce the number of underground utility […]
The Geospatial Commission’s Annual Plan 2019/20 describes the activities that it plans to undertake in 2019/2020 to develop the UK’s National Geospatial Strategy. The first project announced for 2019/2020 is its intention to fund two […]
Belgium underground gas line explosion during excavation 2003 As we are reminded by the recent underground utility hits in San Francisco, CA, Durham, NC, and Calgary, Alberta, not knowing the location underground utilities represents a […]
At Geospatial World Forum 2019 the first international workshop on digitally mapping the underground Underground mapping for resilient infrastructure: Datafication of the Underground was organized by Rob van de Velde and Paul Janssen of Geonovum. […]
Transmission line inspections for vegetation management and other purposes are essential in ensuring grid reliability and resilence. They are generally performed by manned helicopters or by a ground crew. Data is collected with cameras and […]
At the International Standards Summit 2019 in Düsseldorf a group of people representing owners, engineering and construction firms, vendors and services providers in the AEC space, and standards organization Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and buildingSMART […]
With FAA rules permitting beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) UAVs available through Part 107 waivers the cost of capturing the data required for vegetation management for power lines, whether transmission or distribution, could drop […]
